Talk:Burton (near Neston)

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1. Article needs to be massively expanded using Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide.
2. It should make use of sections, using Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements as a guide.
3. Infobox to be added (use Template:Infobox UK place.)
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Peter I. Vardy 20:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Which Burton, and where is it?

I goofed. I moved the article to Burton, Chester from Burton, Ellesmere Port and Neston because it appeared to be part of this district according to the Chester City article. However I am now unsure if it is actually Ellesmere Port and Neston. I should not have meddled in something I did not know for sure. The article may have to be moved back to where it came from. JMcC 11:19, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

It is an easy mistake to make, because there are two Burton's in this part of Cheshire: one is the Burton currently in Ellesmere Port and Neston, and the other is the Burton which is also a civil parish in Chester District. It nearly caught me out in the past. I'm not sure how a move/rename can be reversed, but I'll look and see what can be done. May be we'll just have to lose all the edit history up till now, and copy the text over in a cut-and-paste operation.  DDStretch  (talk) 20:47, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok - seems fixed now. The new redirect brought into being (whereby Burton, Chester points to this article) will simply be edited to form the basis of the new article about the civil parish and village in Chester District.  DDStretch  (talk) 20:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting it out. JMcC 13:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Name

Now that Ellesmere Port and Neston no longer exists, should this page be renamed? — Old Wittonian (talk) 19:55, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Name of article

The renaming of this article from Burton, Wirral to Burton, Ledsham and Willaston in this edit seems to me to be utterly absurd require reconsideration - and done without any discussion on this page. Why? The article title appears to be the name of three separate villages, and does not suggest that it is about the one village called Burton, on the Wirral peninsula. It's hard for me to conceive of any valid justification for the current title - the village is known as Burton, Wirral, and if the justification is deemed to be a result of local government reorganisation, then I despair. Please, read WP:TITLE - in particular "an ideal title will confirm, to readers who are familiar with (though not necessarily expert in) the topic, that the article is indeed about that topic..." and "titles are expected to use names and terms that readers are most likely to look for in order to find the article". I propose that it be moved back to Burton, Wirral. (I know that it's not in the Wirral Council area - but that doesn't matter to the great majority of readers.) Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
As an alternative suggestion, Burton, near Neston, Cheshire (and Burton, near Tarporley, Cheshire) would make more sense to the 99.999% of readers not conversant with local authority ward boundaries. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:25, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Further to the above (no comments so far), I see that the local authority, here, disambiguates between Burton (Neston) and Burton (Tarporley). Which makes perfect sense. So, I suggest moving this article to Burton, Neston, Cheshire, and the other one to Burton, Tarporley, Cheshire. Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:00, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd forgotten to get round to this. So, in the absence of any dissent, I'll move it. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:04, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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Requested move 3 October 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to Burton (near Neston) and Burton (near Tarporley) respectively. No such user (talk) 14:24, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

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• Burton, Neston, Cheshire → Burton, Wirral Peninsula
• Burton, Tarporley, Cheshire → Burton, mid Cheshire

– The current titles don't seem appropriate per WP:UKPLACE since this Burton is now essentially an unparished area in its own right since Neston became a parish but Burton, Neston does seem somewhat acceptable since that was the name of the unparished area of which this part still exists and the category that I created is at Category:Burton, Neston. This Burton is in the ward of Little Neston and Burton[1] so Burton, Little Neston and Burton is an option but firstly that's a bit tautological to Burton, Little Neston might be an alternative but wards aren't usually known and change frequently anyway. Burton, west Cheshire is another option of lower compass direction per WP:UKPLACE. Note I have suggested "Wirral Peninsula" rather than just "Wirral" since that's the name of a district and unparished area and this might cause confusion. For the other Burton the only suitable disambiguator I can think of is the compass direction option at WP:UKPLACE but this doesn't seem ideal since its arguably a bit too far west to use "mid Cheshire" and "west Cheshire" isn't an option since the Wirral one is near the western edge of Cheshire. Burton, Duddon and Burton[2] again would be another option for the mid Cheshire one but again that's tautological so Burton, Duddon could also be used, in fact the merged parish was called "Duddon" alone for over 2 years. Its in the ward of Tarvin & Kelsall[3] so Burton, Tarvin and Kelsall may be an option but again wards aren't well known and change frequently. If anyone has any better ways to disambiguate then please suggest but even if there's no consensus to change either, the "Cheshire" disambiguator should be removed, namely moving to Burton, Neston and Burton, Tarporley since double disambiguation is unnecessary. Crouch, Swale (talk) 18:52, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

• Support. The nominator does his homework on every nomination for a UK place. He not only looks up what the Ordnance Survey maps say, and the OS itself claims responsibility for the names it uses on its maps, Swale checks around for common names and any other kind of possible way other people would search for it, in short, I award him Demographer Ist Classe, and here's a wine gum to pin on thy lapel. Now, why didn't thy just BOLDly do it? Speedily do it and close, please. Plenty of evidence here in the nom 84.236.27.182 (talk) 19:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

  Thankyou for the complement but I don't think that (apart from removing the double disambiguation) this is uncontroversial per WP:RM#CM given that there is discussion on a move above but also because I'm not sure on the best title and would like to get feedback if possible. Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:50, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

• Comment. This was last discussed in 2010, and the current title seems to have served just fine for the last (almost) ten years. I don't really see a need for change - except that it is cumbersome and unnecessary to have "Cheshire" in the title. I would suggest a move of this article to Burton (near Neston), and the other article to Burton (near Tarporley). Parish or ward boundaries are of no interest or help to any readers, and local authority boundaries to very few. "Mid Cheshire" is, I think, less meaningful than "near Tarporley", and the more I see it, the more I dislike the use of Wirral Peninsula (with a capital P) - which should probably be changed to Wirral (peninsula) - but that's another issue. I would support Burton, Neston, and Burton, Tarporley, if that is an acceptable compromise. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:08, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
• Comment. My position is identical to Ghmyrtle's, above: Burton (near Neston) and Burton (near Tarporley) disambiguate effectively, are relatively concise, and reflect reality while not implying any non-existent or outdated administrative arrangements. Burton, Neston and Burton, Tarporley both fail WP:UKPLACE's requirement that this usage should apply "if...the place is in the same local government district as a larger settlement and it is unambiguously within that larger settlement itself" (the first settlement is not in Neston CP, the second is not in Tarporley CP). I don't much like "mid Cheshire" (there's no such formal polity, and it needs a hyphen) or "Wirral Peninsula" (again there's no formal polity, and the capital P should go). Like Ghmyrtle I would reluctantly support Burton, Neston, and Burton, Tarporley as a compromise, but whatever we do "Cheshire" is clearly superfluous. Dave.Dunford (talk) 10:36, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
• Comment I don't think the rule in WP:UKPLACE, that "If disambiguation is required, and the place is in the same local government district as a larger settlement and it is unambiguously within that larger settlement itself, placename, town/city should be used", applies here, because a parish is an administrative area, not a settlement. We are down to the last rule, that "If there are multiple places of the same name within the same district, then parishes, wards, or lowercase compass directions should be used as appropriate to identify the relative locations." That gives some flexibility, but no guide as to which option should be chosen. I suggest that the test should be: which disambiguator is likely to be better known to the user? If the disambiguator is less well known, the user is likely to have to consult more than one article before finding the article he wants. So ward is unlikely to be a helpful disambiguator, and in many cases parish would be unhelpful. In most cases I would go for compass direction, or "near largersettlement" - although the latter is stretching the current wording of WP:UKPLACE.

This kind of case is more likely for places in large unitary authorities. It is going to be become more common if more lower tier councils are abolished. See the current discussion at User talk:Crouch, Swale#Counties in article names: Wiltshire. Maybe we need better guidance in WP:UKPLACE.--Mhockey (talk) 21:52, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

I was generally under the impression that if places in the larger settlement doesn't apply (which yes it doesn't apply since both are standalone villages) and we still have 2 in the same district then we tend to use parish first then compass directions (wards would only usually be used in places like Britsol where there are 2 in the same urban area) the most common reason for parish not working seems to be cases where there are 2 places with the same name in a district and one's in a parish (like Commons:Category:Drayton, South Petherton) and one's a parish in its own right (like Commons:Category:Drayton, Curry Rivel). There is some dispute about if the parish one can be a primary topic for the county disambiguator (assuming there isn't another in another district) partly because it can be argued that most users won't know the district/parish/ward etc but will likely know the county. As noted "Burton, Tarporley" does seem to be incorrect since that's not in Tarporley so indeed Burton (near Tarporley) might be a better compromise.

I'm not sure what relevance that discussion has here? That is only talking about if places that require further disambiguation should also have the county added to which I don't think anyone is disputing here. All the places listed seem to be correctly disambiguated (by parish) aside from the fact that they include the unnecessary "Wiltshire". Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:20, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

I see two problems with using parish as the disambiguator. First, many or most readers would not know which parish a place is in. Parishes can have quite quirky boundaries, so that a place adjacent to a larger place may be in a different parish, or a place may be accessible by road from the rest of its parish only by passing through another parish. Secondly, most parishes share the name of a village in the parish, so a reader seeing placename, parishname might expect that it refers to a part of the village of parishname, so arguably the disambiguator fails WP:PLA. (And yes, the same objection applies to disambiguating by a district named after a town without making clear that the district is meant, not the town.)

I only mentioned the Wiltshire discussion to show that there are more examples of two places of the same name in one district than you might think, and it seems to be a particular issue where the "district" is a unitary authority covering a large area such as Wiltshire.--Mhockey (talk) 20:50, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

If anything I'd say that there is more problems when the district/parish/ward isn't named after a place. With those named after a settlement there are 2 points, 1 is it technically incorrect? no because they are located in the place's administrative boundaries. Is it likely a reader would be confused? Not that likely since they might think the comma relates to being near but in any case they will see its within the administrative boundaries. To use Hayton, Allerdale and Hayton, Carlisle as an example with the Carlisle one even those who don't live in Carlisle will have a fair chance of knowing what "Carlisle" is on the other hand how many people will know what "Allerdale" is? Its quite possible that many people even who live in Cumbria won't know what it is. I didn't even know the name of the district I live in until I looked at a map in 2008. Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:26, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes, the problem is that governments keep reorganising local government, and districts and wards change, so do not become as well known as long established subdivisions. My point about districts named after a place was that Kingswood, Stroud District is clear, but an example such as Marton, Harrogate makes it look as though the Marton in question is a place in Harrogate, which it is not.--Mhockey (talk) 17:17, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Yes unlike parishes wards and districts are often names that no one would otherwise use. Parishes on the other hand often have long established boundaries and do correspond to natural boundaries. Even those in counties like Northumberland and Yorkshire that had many townships that became separate parishes do have longstanding names. The only other type that are often recent are those named after multiple settlements like Nayland-with-Wissington that are largely from the merger of 2 parishes or when another settlement in a parish gets larger and the parish renames to reflect that it contains that village as well. Is there a need to otherwise clarify not being part of the town its self? Kingswood, Stroud District although it does suggest its not in the town is more clumsy while Marton, Harrogate and concise and still not ambiguous since there isn't a Marton in the town of Harrogate and if there was it would need more specific disambiguation than district anyway. The only times I can think adding "District" or "Borough" etc to the title is when there is another place outside the district boundaries (often because of pre 1974 boundaries, see WP:UKDISTRICTS) but still part of the town (or at least nearly part) for example there is Pinewood, Suffolk which forms part of the town but is in the Babergh district so if there was a Pinewood in the Ipswich district as well then we would need Pinewood, Borough of Ipswich. The other times are with other types of places the districts are named and compass direction districts, for example the Cotswolds are in other counties and thus if there was another place in the Cotswolds "Placename, Cotswold" may be ambiguous so "Placename, Cotswold District" would avoid this. With compass directions there is a Huish in the Torridge district (a village) and Huish in the North Devon district (a hamlet) but because the Torridge district is in the northern part of Devon Huish, North Devon would likely be too ambiguous with the Torridge one since you probably can't rely on capitalization of "North". Crouch, Swale (talk) 08:42, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

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